# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Kanban headless judge missing relay-affinity scope fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where headless goal-judge calls lacked the relay-affinity scope, causing transport failures that incorrectly rejected human gate transitions. The fix ensures the relay affinity key is carried through headless judge calls.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #114791. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114791 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-114791`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #113669: kanban CLI goal judge has no relay-affinity scope -> opencode-go 400 MissingSessionID turns a judge transport failure into a rejected human gate

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114791: fix(kanban): goal-mode complete/request-review no longer fails when the judge transport fails; headless judge carries the relay affinity key (#113669, #83610, salvage #113691, #78605)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/goals.py`, `hermes_cli/kanban.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_goal_judge_affinity.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_goal_mode.py`, `tools/kanban_tools.py`, `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md`
- **#113691: fix(kanban): bind relay-affinity scope for headless goal-judge calls**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `9ee7da83fa21`, `#114791`, `#113669`, `#83610`, `#113691`, `#78605`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114791 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.